Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy's Cinecitta Studios, nine minutes short of three hours in the theater, the picture recreates ancient Rome with massive splendor and lavish detail. Nero's court lolls midst pleasures and palaces. Massed legions march in triumph through crowd-choked avenues. Mobs flee the burning city and storm Nero's palace. Christian martyrs fall to a pack of lions, burn by the score at rows of stakes in the arena of the Circus Maximus. One of them, Ursus...
Thresky spent last night trying to dissuade cowboy star Gene Autry from flying to Chicago. The word-bird made an emergency landing at Logan Airport late yesterday afternoon, after he was wounded by the weekend storm...
...used municipal funds to show that the experiment was a failure. It appeared that rain had fallen abundantly in the wrong places. At present, 169 claims have been filed against the city by Catskill communities and citizens. Other communities complained that Howell's experiments had cause $2,138,510 storm damages in their areas...
...claimant reported that the November 25th storm caused him and his wife to rescue 120 mink worth $10,000, who were drowning. The town of Shandaken reported that the cloud insemination experiments brought severe floods and property damage...
...been building up since last July, when a graduate school group invited as a guest speaker Dr. Harold Rugg, emeritus professor of Columbia University's Teachers College, whose left-of-cen-ter textbooks have long been stirring a storm in U.S. public schools. No sooner had Rugg appeared than-two Ohio newspapers sounded the alarm. "Marxian doctrinaire," cried the Ohio State Journal. The Columbus Dispatch echoed: "A defiant and unabashed radical." The newspapers needled Ohio Governor Frank Lausche into requesting a trustee investigation of the charges, and in short order the trustees issued their edict...